What's New

* Completely redesigned user experience for faster navigation
* New camera search feature looks up words in your camera's viewfinder
* Ability to share word definitions via installed apps on your device
* Fun ‘Word of the Day’ feature
* Performance improvements

App Description

Based on the world's largest corpus of American English, the Cambridge Dictionary of American English provides up-to-date vocabulary, easy-to-understand definitions, helpful usage notes, and examples that show how English is really used. This second edition offers advanced search features and a thesaurus, alongside spoken pronunciations for every word.

There are over 60,000 meanings and examples included, with up-to-date vocabulary definitions to stay relevant. You'll also find more then 200 usage panels help you avoid errors commonly made in English and frequency information to help identify a word you need to know.

Also includes advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems.

SEARCH TOOLS – effortlessly find words using a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface. The integrated search tools activate automatically the moment you start typing:
* Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type
* Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases
* An automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ ('*' or '?') to replace a letter or entire parts of a word
* Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results

LEARNING TOOLS – engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary:
* ‘Favorites’ feature to create custom folders with lists of words from the extensive library
* ‘Recent’ list to help you easily review looked-up words
* ‘Word of the day’ section to help expand your vocabulary every day
* Fun and engaging word games like 'Hangman', 'Word scramble' and 'Anagrams' give the opportunity to use newly learned words

IMPORTANT NOTE FROM THE DEVELOPERS:
If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions please contact us directly at [email protected].

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • July 19, 2011 New version 4.0.1
  • October 19, 2011 Price decrease: $16.99 -> $12.99
  • December 02, 2011 Price increase: $12.99 -> $16.99
  • September 18, 2012 New version 5.0.14
  • November 17, 2012 New version 5.0.17
  • April 12, 2013 Price decrease: $16.99 -> $3.99
  • April 13, 2013 Price increase: $3.99 -> $16.99
  • March 26, 2015 Price decrease: $16.99 -> $1.99
  • March 28, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $16.99
  • June 24, 2015 New version 8.0
  • June 24, 2015 Price decrease: $16.99 -> $1.99
  • June 28, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $16.99